Max Scherzer and Jon Lester might as well have neon-green dollar signs stamped all over their uniforms and caps when spring training opens next week. Their careers were redefined this offseason when they joined baseball's elite echelon of $100 million arms, a sweet 16 whose salaries total an even sweeter $2.42 billion. Every game they start and every pitch they throw will be viewed through the prism of their 1 percenter incomes. Judging by history, they had better succeed swiftly with their new teams. Wins and innings pitched are likely to dwindle with age. Theo Epstein, the Chicago Cubs' president of baseball operations who signed Lester, likens these megadeals to a...

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Max Scherzer and Jon Lester might as well have neon-green dollar signs stamped all over their uniforms and caps when spring training opens next week.
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